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How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the squeeze-out-the-flops dept.

Oak Ridge National Lab has purchased from SGI an Altix 3000 (flash movie). This article claims that: SGI Altix 3000 is recognized as the first Linux cluster that scales up to 64 processors within each node and the first cluster ever to allow global shared memory access across nodes. There is more here, here, and here.

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  1. Look Out! by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    "SGI Altix 3000 is recognized as the first Linux cluster that scales up to 64 processors"

    SCO will be all over your ass now!

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    1. Re:Look Out! by monkey_jam · · Score: 4, Funny

      ..maybe you should learn to wipe better...

  2. Apple by zzzmarcus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great... I can see Jobs wringing his hands already.

    "Now how am I going to make the G5's look faster than THIS?"

    1. Re:Apple by Trigun · · Score: 2, Funny

      He just has to tell the apple fanboys that a G5 is, and they'll believe it.

      For his next trick, Jobs is going to walk on water.

  3. Rocket Haid... by poptones · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now those obsessed geniuses have even more reason to forget to change the oil in their cars...

    (Inside joke for my ol' friends at ORNL...)

  4. Best of both worlds... by goats_in_boats · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...now you get obscene frame rates on quake III while searching for those pesky pockets of natural gas!

  5. lites by NetMagi · · Score: 3, Funny

    makes me just wanna turn off the lights and look at all those LED's blinkin!

  6. Obligatory: Mods on Crack! by panda · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, so the moderators are on crack today. What's with all these obviously "funny" posts getting moderated as "insightful?"

    Guess it's time to meta-moderate!

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    1. Re:Obligatory: Mods on Crack! by darkov · · Score: 5, Funny

      OK, so the moderators are on crack today.

      Only today?

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  7. So... by Mipsalawishus · · Score: 3, Funny

    How hard would it be to /. one of these things??

  8. Re:SCO and Microsoft reactions? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The fun part is that this same thing is 100% impossible with Windows.

    it looks like that Microsoft's products are NOT enterprise class and Linux certianly is.

    It just is another nail I get to torture the MSCE's here with....

    "Hey, can your 2003 advanced server do this... oh wait... sorry, I was comparing powerful OS capabilities important to an enterprise to a low end operating system...."

    sorry guys.....

  9. Conversion scale? by jackDuhRipper · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that in bogomips?

  10. And just how did they accomplish this... by Kevinv · · Score: 4, Funny

    without SCO's help?

  11. Benchmarks I can Understand? by Greyfox · · Score: 2, Funny
    How about the Quake 3 framerate?
    Kernel compile time with make -j?

    Hmm, what are some other good ones?

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  12. Re:Beowulf cluster jokes... by Helmut+Kool · · Score: 2, Funny

    You don't seem to remember the joke well enough. You're supposed to IMAGINE the beowulf cluster, not actually build it.

  13. They must be running their web server on it. by twoslice · · Score: 2, Funny

    'Cause it is surviving a /.ing with a Flash intro even!

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  14. Re:Hey, at least it's not running IRIX by platypus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hated it, if it helps.

  15. I'm offering a Bounty to all posters by hellfire · · Score: 3, Funny

    $500 for the scalp of anyone who says the words "Beowulf" and "cluster" in the same post in response to this article.

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  16. Re:Setting one up now by Jaeger- · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't you know you can't follow "only" with the words "12cpu, 24gb ram, 1tb disk"...

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  17. Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You're missing something.